[Xastir] Update to No install

Murry B murraybr at nbnet.nb.ca
Fri Jan 14 18:50:16 EST 2011


As in a previous message, I have Xastir working now, installed from source.
What is the safest way to change to cvs update

VE9MB




On 01/14/2011 03:16 PM, David A Aitcheson wrote:
> On 01/14/2011 11:17 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Murry B wrote:
>>
>>> I have removed all I had done previously, and tried again with the
>>> PCLinuxOS How-to
>>> As you can see below, the packages are already installed, but I am
>>> curious about the
>>> error that is showing. I think it was there the first time, but I
>>> just ignored it
>>> [root at localhost murry]# apt-get install automake cvs liblesstif-devel
>>> Committing changes...
>>> error: failed to stat /home/murry/.gvfs: Permission denied
>> I haven't used that OS, and have no idea what .gvfs is.  It's not
>> something used by Xastir directly.  It must be used by apt-get or one
>> of the packages that you just tried to install.  I'd do an "ls -al" in
>> your home directory to see what the permissions and ownership are on
>> that file or directory.  Perhaps "root" owns it or the permissions
>> there got whacked.
>>
> "GVFS" is a Debian/Ubuntu process that is a "userspace virtual
> filesystem - server"
>
> gvfs is a userspace virtual filesystem where mount runs as a separate
> processes which you talk to via D-Bus. It also contains a gio module
> that seamlessly adds gvfs support to all applications using the gio
> API. It also supports exposing the gvfs mounts to non-gio applications
> using fuse.
>
> This package contains the gvfs server that provides gvfs mounts to all
> gio applications, and the minimal set of backends.
>
> Canonical provides critical updates for gvfs until April 2013.
>




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